Based on Hans Christian Andersen's classic story, The Little Mermaid is a Broadway musical that follows the journey of a mermaid, Ariel, whose fascination with the human world perplexes her friends, sisters and most of all her father, the sea king. After falling in love with a human prince, the mermaid becomes determined to join his world and finds herself on a tangled journey from the ocean to land. Along the way she gets herself and her sea creature friends into dangerous encounters with hungry humans and a sea witch.